[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Rework alarm timer infrastrucure - take 2

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 01:11 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> in reply to this mail I will send a serie of 4 patches that cleans up and
> expands the alarm timer handling in QEMU. Patches have been rebased on QEMU
> CVS.
> 
> Patch 1 is mostly a cleanup of the existing code; instead of having multiple
> #ifdefs to handle different timers scattered all over the code I've created a
> modular infrastructure where each timer type is self-contained and generic code
> is more readable. The resulting code is functionally equivalent to the old one.
> 
> Patch 2 implements the "-clock" command line option proposed by Daniel Berrange
> and Avi Kivity. By default QEMU tries RTC and then falls back to unix timer;
> user can override the order of the timer through this options. Syntax is pretty
> simple: -clock timer1,timer2,etc. (QEMU will pick the first one that works).
> 
> Patch 3 adds support for HPET under Linux (which is basically my old patch). As
> suggested HPET takes precedence over other timers, but of course this can be
> overridden.
> 
> Patch 4 introduces "dynticks" timer source; patch is mostly based on the work
> Dan Kenigsberg. dynticks is now the default alarm timer.

Why do you guard dynticks with #ifdef?  Is there any reason why you
wouldn't want to use dynticks?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Luca